‘Little Mermaid’ Star Chloë Grace Moretz Cannot Talk About Seashell Bras Yet, Sorry

Chloë Grace Moretz at Coach prom. (Photo: Getty Images)

We saw Debbie Harry headline a prom in a castle last night, and we weren’t even on acid. Instead, we were on Paris time, drinking spiked punch at the famous Hôtel Salomon de Rothschild and popping balloons with Suki Waterhouse and Charli XCX.

The party was Coach’s high-fashion prom, thrown by the ever-rising brand to celebrate life, liberty, and the pursuit of rhinestone tiaras. And after Harry belted “One Way or Another” while models, editors, and very connected French teenagers screamed in the ballroom, Mark Ronson spun hip-hop hits for off-duty fashion designers and Alma Jodorowsky.

Perched on a velvet couch was Chloë Grace Moretz, the actress who’s been Coach’s go-to model since last year. Instead of a prom dress, she wore a varsity jacket and leather pencil skirt, last seen last week on the Coach catwalk.

We asked the starlet, who’s newly 19, about proms, ponytails, and, of course, playing the new Little Mermaid onscreen.

Yahoo Style: Nice hair! There have been so many ponytails on the runway this season.
Chloë Grace Moretz: Yeah! On the Coach runway, for sure. But this is also really practical. I feel like if you’re going to be out all night, why worry about your hair? So the ponytail is like, hair spray: Quick check in the mirror, go, and then you don’t have to touch your hair all night, and it can’t get in your face if you’re dancing.

You’ve been acting since elementary school. Did you ever go to a real prom?
No. I did get to go to prom for Carrie, but that didn’t end so well. [Laughs.]

Do people still want to talk to you about that movie?
Yeah, but I love it. It’s great that people got really into something we made. And the weird thing is, Carrie kind of became an arthouse movie at the end of it all, which nobody expected, but it’s really cool.

I’m guessing you didn’t keep your Carrie prom dress.
Well, I’ve never been to prom, but I went to a winter formal when I was like 16 years old. Someone asked me. It was pretty exciting, because he was a senior and it was his senior formal. So it felt like a big deal. I know—awww, right?

What did you wear?
I wore a little blue Tibi dress. I loved it. That was the one and only dress of my school dance career. I did get invited to a few proms my last year of “school.” I didn’t get my own prom because I was home-schooled — but I was just, like, you know, “Thank you for the invitation, but I really don’t want to go to a dance.” If I went [to prom], I would probably wear jeans and a T-shirt, you know? I just wasn’t into it.

Is this “prom” a little better than the high school version?
Are you kidding? It’s like an old-school ’70s prom movie. Coach is an amazing brand to be a part of, but this party that they’re throwing is insane. It’s a new level of being amazing.

Next up for you is the live-action Little Mermaid, right?
Yes! I have The Little Mermaid coming out in June. It’s from Disney, but it’s not the cartoon at all. It’s a revisionist tale. New, darker, different than what you’ve seen from Disney — but it’s still going to be family friendly. It was always one of my favorite movies as a little kid, obviously, so it’s kind of surreal that it’s happening. When I got the part, I really couldn’t believe it. And now, what’s hard is I can’t even talk about any of it. I’m sworn to secrecy.

Not even a hint about the seashell bra?
Nope. Sorry. You’ll have to see. But I promise when you do see, you’ll think it’s very cool. Cooler than a prom dress, for sure.

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